What You Should Know:
- Epic, Nordic, Galen Healthcare and The Chartis Group won 2022 Overall Best in KLAS® awards, released today, which reports on the top vendors for 2022. Epic was named the top Overall Software Suite for the twelfth straight year in 2022 Best in KLAS Software & Services report, released today, which reports on the top vendors for 2021. Epic was also named the top Overall Physician Practice Vendor. Epic won nine other Best in KLAS awards in various market
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KLAS Research Reports | Healthcare IT Research Reports | Analysis, Trends
Healthcare Data & Analytics Platforms: Shifting from Siloed Capabilities
Historically, analytics capabilities for healthcare organizations have been offered in siloed solutions. These solutions provide quick insights but not the longitudinal patient, financial, and operational views organizations need to truly move the needle in their efforts to improve care and reduce costs. The good news is that as organizations’ analytics needs have expanded, so have vendor offerings. A number of vendors now offer consolidated, end-to-end platforms that provide a wide variety of
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Stronger Together: A Remedy to Third-Party Cyber Risk in Healthcare
Controlling healthcare costs while delivering faster and better patient care is predicated upon the secure digitization and distribution of health information, from clinicians to medical devices to EMR and EHR systems, and more. The healthcare blueprint looks and operates much differently from what’s built for other industries, with vendors and other third parties supplying most of the components that make up today’s healthcare provider infrastructure. It’s increasing the attack surface area,
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KLAS: Growth of Drug Diversion Monitoring Market
Often when we talk about the opioid epidemic, the focus is rightly on the suffering that the situation has caused. However, it’s important not to miss the surrounding context of this crisis, and what various health systems have started to uncover.
Currently, health systems face a huge challenge in tracking and managing their controlled substances. One of the technology-based solutions to the problem is drug diversion monitoring systems, which KLAS reported on in a recent report. While
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MEDITECH Expanse Leads Customer Satisfaction for Small Community Hospitals, KLAS Report Finds
What You Should Know:
- Small community hospitals (1–200 beds) leaders cite MEDITECH Expanse Acute Care EMR as a leader in delivering the most consistent customer experience, according to a new KLAS report.
The KLAS report reveals that while Epic and Cerner EMRs leads in performance among large organizations they don’t deliver as consistently for smaller hospitals. Customers cite their approaches to the community market—hub-and spoke relationship (Epic) and shared server (Cerner)—create
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Epic, Galen Healthcare, Chartis Group Named 2020 Overall Best in KLAS Awards
What You Should Know:
- Epic was named the top Overall Software Suite for the eleventh consecutive year in the Best in KLAS 2021 Software & Services report, released today, which reports on the top vendors for 2020. Epic was also named the top Overall Physician Practice Vendor. Galen Healthcare Solutions was named the top Overall IT Services Firm. The Chartis Group earned the award of top Overall Healthcare Management Consulting Firm, edging out last year’s winner,
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CHIME-KLAS Report Reveals 10 Key EMR Interoperability Trends
What You Should Know:
- New CHIME-KLAS interoperability report reveals steady
progress in some areas related to interoperability and leaps forward in others.
- A total of 67% of provider organizations reported they
often or nearly always had access to needed records in 2020, up from 28% in
2017. Providers noted improvements in functionality and usability for tasks
like locating and viewing records.
Both providers and the companies that produce the hardware and software needed
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HealthStream Acquires Change Healthcare’s Staff Scheduling Business for $67.M
What You Should Know:
- HealthStream acquires Change Healthcare’s staff
scheduling business for $67.5M in cash which includes the ANSOS™ Staff
Scheduling (“ANSOS”) platform and related products.
- The acquisition will help establish HealthStream as a
market leader in healthcare workforce scheduling business.
HealthStream, a
leading provider of workforce and provider solutions for the healthcare
industry has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire
Change Healthcare’s
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How Care Coordination Technology Addresses Social Isolation in Seniors
Senior isolation is a health risk that affects at least a quarter of seniors over 65. It has become recognized over the past decade as a risk factor for poor aging outcomes including cognitive decline, depression, anxiety, Alzheimer’s disease, obesity, hypertension, heart disease, impaired immune function, and even death.
Physical limitations, lack of transportation, and inadequate health literacy, among other social determinants of health (SDOH), further impair access to medical and mental
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KLAS: Epic, NextGen, Cerner Best at Making Outside Patient Data Usable
What You Should Know:
- New KLAS report finds acute and ambulatory care EMR
vendors Cerner, Epic and NextGen are best at making outside patient data usable
for clinicians (data from outside the clinician's health system).
- KLAS report examines adoption and usability among advanced
users of the main acute and ambulatory care EMR vendors.
The national interoperability networks of Carequality and CommonWell Health Alliance have become some of the primary means by which patient records
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